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Lee, Sangyun - 2020

Unfair practices by online platforms have not only exclusionary effects on relevant markets but also exploitative effects on captive business users (and/or individual users). Nevertheless, attention is lopsided with most of the focus having been placed on the exclusionary abuse. With the aim of...

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Antitrust Without Romance

Schrepel, Thibault - 2020

Antitrust law is undergoing a transformation that is detrimental to the interest of the general public. “Romantics” are … taking over antitrust law—a fact evinced by recent public outreach instruments. This transformation is grounded in populist … opportunities antitrust authorities' top officials to benefit their own interests at the expense of the public. Presently, nothing …

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Multisided Markets and the Challenge of Incorporating Multisided Considerations into Competition Law Analysis

Gurkaynak, Gonenc - 2018

Since the seminal paper of Rochet and the Nobel Prize laureate Tirole in 2003, the theory of multisided markets has garnered considerable academic attention. The practical application of the theory remains, however, challenging. This article seeks to bring together the key features of multisided...

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Intel and the Tale of Rebates : The (More) Economic Approach to the Rescue!

Carli, Cecilia - 2018

In what should have been an exemplary case and a plea of an enforcement untamed and far away from the Chicago approach, the EU commission ruled, in 2009, that Intel, holding approximately a 70% share in the market for computer chips, in the period 2002-2007 abused its market power by putting in...

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Platform Market Power

Bamberger, Kenneth A. - 2018

The rise of the platform economy has been the subject of celebration and critique. Platform companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Postmates have been rightfully celebrated as positively disruptive, introducing much–needed competition in industries that have been otherwise over–mature and...

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The Curious Case of Italian Interlocking Directorates

Ghezzi, Federico Cesare Guido - 2020

In this paper, we provide an overview of the Italian legislation on interlocking directorates and its enforcement in the last decade. Italy is the only EU Member State to have introduced a specific anti-interlocking provision aimed at promoting competition in the banking, insurance, and...

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Interventions by Common Owners

Shekita, Nathan - 2020

Common ownership exists when investors concurrently hold partial and significant shares in related firms. In this paper, I compile, document, and taxonomize 30 separate cases of intervention to demonstrate how common owners influence firm behavior. Although previous literature has identified a...

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College Esports : A Model for NCAA Reform

Baker, Thomas - 2019

Collegiate esports is an emerging industry, an extension of professional esports that has caught the attention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA is currently exploring the possibility of taking a dominant regulatory role within collegiate esports. The leagues and...

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Will the FTC’s Success Continue?

Muris, Timothy J. - 2018

populism in antitrust. Both of these “isms” once dominated FTC work, particularly in the 1970s, with disastrous consequences … somehow dominates FTC thinking, particularly in antitrust …

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Contextual Variety

Kuenzler, Adrian - 2018

Following the CJEU's decisions in Pierre Fabre and Coty, a considerable amount of scholarship on the design of competitive markets has been concerned with one particular issue: should product manufacturers be allowed to impose firmer restrictions on distribution with the aim of upholding...

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